NOTE: While I wrote this post three years ago, it is more relevant today than ever. I just got off the phone with a national leader who works with refugees and he described how his organization gets waves of new refugees after each international crisis. Currently, Syrians and Iraqi’s are pouring in, each with their …
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How Getting “Snowed In” Can Save Your Sanity
Thanks to the generosity of a close friend, my family got to get away this week for a much needed few days of downtime up in Big Bear, CA. We are staying in a sweet little condo with a full kitchen, fireplace and patio. Janny and I came up for a weekend retreat I was …
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Practice #2: The Upside-Down Job Description
I recently had a conversation with NieuCommunities’ founder, Rob Yackley, about my role within the missional church community we serve among in San Diego (NieuCommunities has two other sites in Vancouver, BC & South Africa). Coming from a leadership paradigm where I had been used to getting a piece of paper with a job description …
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Two Essential Practices of Missional Church Leadership (or any leader)
Having studied and now served/lived among a missional church community, I am seeing more and more the unique role leadership plays in this model of ministry. Initiating the paradigm of flat leadership (as apposed to hierarchal), these aren’t easy waters to navigate. In fact, in an attempt cultivate an ethos of shared leadership, the lines …
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Celtic Christianity and the Spirituality of Beer
I’m currently working on a project that draws lines of connection between St. Patrick of Ireland, Celtic Christianity and New Monasticism. It has been a fascinating study, but when I came across this Celtic prayer I couldn’t help but pass the word. The Celtic Christians would create “everyday prayers” that created a space to acknowledge …
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